Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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